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Campus Antiwar Network Delegate Meets
with British Students
International Peace Conference, London, December 10, 2005
Elizabeth
Wrigley-Field, Campus
Antiwar Network (CAN) national Coordinating Committee member, addressed
a meeting of over 100 student activists at the International Peace Conference
in London on December 10, 2005.
Wrigley-Field represented CAN as its delegate to the conference.
She discussed counter-recruitment protests by US students and the wave of repressions that student activists have faced at US campuses tis year (George Mason University, Holyoke Community College, Harold Washington College, University of Wisconsin/Madision, Kent State University and Hampton University). Wrigley-Field said that there were areas of common concern and offerred international solidarity from US students.
See the Quicktime video of her talk that followed presentations by National Union of Students organizers Peter Leary, Suzie Wylie and Pav Akhtar. The British students are also active in the Stop the War Coalition.
(On December 15, Wrigley-Field was one of three CAN strudents interviewed on Democracy Now about the Pentagon's spying on antiwar activists.)
Photos and video © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Pav Akhtar, Black students' officer, Natinal Union of Students (NUS); Peter
Leary, NUS Executive Member
and Student Stop the War; and Suzie Wylie, NUS Executive Member addressing
the student meeting.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Pav Akhtar, Suzie Wylie, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Peter Leary.
On December 11, 2005, Wrigley-Field represented CAN at a meeting of international activists who discussed cooperation and the call by the conference for major demonstrations on March 18 and 19, 2005.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field addressing the December 11th meeting.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Participants represented many international organizations at a post-conference meeting on international peacemaking. Stop the War Coalition (UK) convened the conference; also from the UK were Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and National Union of Students. US groups included United for Peace and Justice, Campus Antiwar Network, Veterans for Peace, AfterDowningStreet, US Labor Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, International Socialist Review and Traprock Peace Center.
Photo © 2005 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Charles Jenks (Traprock advisory board chair and
website manager)
and Kate Hudson (Chair of Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament).
See also the opening session with Tony Benn, Phyllis Bennis and Sami Ramadani; the Military Families Panel with Cindy Sheehan and Rose Gentle; the Building the International Movement panel with George Galloway;
For reports on the conference, see the Stop the War Coalition website. And see Eric Ruder's report from London: Sami Ramadani on the latest “milestone” election in Iraq; reports from Socialist Worker (UK); David Swanson; and Kevin Zeese.